squamate

adj

1. (not-comparable)Covered in scales.

   “The ground here, it seems, is a mecca for the costive denizens of the Sahel, an unspoiled latrine for Mother Nature and all her feathered, furred and squamate creation.”

noun

1. Any reptile of the order Squamata; a lizard, snake or mosasauroid.

   “In particular, dinosaurs did not participate in the Cretaceous Terrestrial Revolution, some 130 to 100 Ma, when flowering plants, leaf-eating insects, social insects, squamates, and many other modern groups radiated substantially.”